Guttering vs Buttering - What's the difference?
guttering | buttering |
Gutters considered as a group.
(of a small flame) flickering and about to be extinguished
*1919 , Siegfried Sassoon,
*:Why do you lie with your legs ungainly huddled,
*:And one arm bent across your sullen cold
*:Exhausted face? It hurts my heart to watch you,
*:Deep-shadow'd from the candle's guttering gold;
The application of butter to something.
* 1986 , R. Barcan Marcus, G. J. W. Dorn, P. Weingartner, Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VII
As nouns the difference between guttering and buttering
is that guttering is gutters considered as a group while buttering is the application of butter to something.As verbs the difference between guttering and buttering
is that guttering is while buttering is .As an adjective guttering
is (of a small flame) flickering and about to be extinguished.guttering
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(head)buttering
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(en noun)- It is interesting that the sentences that Davidson uses in his arguments for events are all about genuine flesh and blood events: butterings of toast, explosions of boilers, raisings of arms, kickings of Shem and Sean and the like.